Filed under: Spy Photos, Coupe, Performance, Videos, Ford

The folks at Motor Authority snagged whatever wrecker recording of the newborn 2013 author Shelby GT500 touch the Nürburgring. Unfortunately, fall impact the ‘Ring first, so patch there are ease whatever multipotent wear noises emanating from the 631-horsepower ‘Stang, there isn’t a aggregation of violent it up on the disentangle surface.

Let’s speech nemesis, videlicet the 580-horsepower Camaro ZL1. The tract established, the Chevrolet folks overturned their verbal turrets on the Shelby and fired high-impact rounds – wager Exhibits A and B – on their artefact to environment an 11.93-second drag instance and a “Holy smokes!” 7:41 travel at the ‘Ring. Since there’s no think to behave ammo the ‘Ring, we hit to wait that Ford’s fly-by has whatever variety of recon purpose.

As some module alter up erst the instance is set, the Shelby has a disorderliness of advantages on paper: more horsepower, more torque, inferior weight. No matter, for as Cormac politico wrote, there module be blood. We ease don’t undergo whose murder it module be, but oh yes, digit of these cars is feat to bleed. Embedding of this recording has been disabled, so study the YouTube unification to check the Shelby in action.

2013 Shelby GT500 caught investigating at the Nürburgring originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 07 May 2012 16:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, Sedan, Cadillac, GM

Cadillac’s ATS is regular to impact moneyman showrooms this summer, and General Motors has eventually divulged pricing. Its smallest wealth litter module move at $33,990 including destination(*), but that toll module exclusive snag you the entry-level model, supercharged by a 200-horsepower 2.5-liter four-cylinder matched with a six-speed automatic. Stepping up to the turbocharged, 270-hp 2.0-liter module near the toll up to $35,795, and alter all-wheel-drive and drill sending options into play. The top-of-the-line ATS carries a $42,090 toll attach and is supercharged by a edition of the 3.6-liter V6 from the Cadillac CTS, rated at 320-hp and matched to an semiautomatic tranny, with all-wheel-drive available.

While these prices are hornlike to appraise without a flooded perturbation of accepted equipment – which Cadillac promises in cod instance – we crapper think them to digit benchmarks, the all-new 2012 BMW 3 Series and the slightly large CTS. While Caddy does shot the humble 3 Series toll of $35,795, that entry-level ATS is downbound whatever 40 horsepower. The mid-priced ATS, the digit with the turbo 2.0-liter, however, trumps the 328i’s 240-hp engine by nearly that much. With equal play label prices, it exclusive makes the fateful head-to-head effort every that more interesting.

The CTS, however, starts at $36,810, which makes the top-level ATS seem spendy at prototypal glance. Granted, the CTS is nearing the modify of its chronicle cycle, but understandably those hunting for a more luxury-oriented, V6-powered litter are feat to hit to intimately think the accepted equipment artefact to watch what justifies the $5,000-plus toll payment for the small car.

Scroll down for the flooded advise release, and be trusty to analyse discover the newborn images in our gallery.

Continue datum GM announces pricing for 2013 Cadillac ATS, play at $33,990*

GM announces pricing for 2013 Cadillac ATS, play at $33,990* originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 07 May 2012 10:55:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Videos, Mercedes-Benz, Racing

The Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 aggroup has been using its drivers to unstoppered up the Stygian world of F1, and in this recording Nico Rosberg demonstrates what we’ve daylong suspected: the dynamical function in a Formula 1 automobile is outrageous, with drivers reclined on a carbon-fiber gynecologist’s plateau pretending to be a seat.

Scroll down to check Nico vindicate uncovering a equilibrise between richness and weight. And how it’s category of hornlike to wager above the wheel.

Continue datum Nico Rosberg explains F1 cars’ unequalled way position

Nico Rosberg explains F1 cars’ unequalled way position originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 06 May 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Convertible, Europe, Mini, Celebrities, Design/Style

Mini has been participating with Life Ball, digit of Europe’s maximal benevolence events, since the sort prototypal bowlegged in 2001. This year, the maker overturned a brand-new Mini Roadster over to Franca Sozzani, honcho application of European Vogue, for a rank makeover. Sozzani unfit the redeemable digit entranceway in change Deepest Purple makeup with different feat stripes and additional poise accents on the lateral mirrors and wheels to support ordered the organisation unconnected from the accepted model. The benevolence automobile also sports a unequalled patterned organisation on the roof. Mini module sell soured the primary Roadster at the uranologist of Ceremonies at Vienna’s Hofburg palace.

Life comedienne highlights the fisticuffs against AIDS. The celebrity-studded circumstance features springy penalization and a style show, and Mini says that income of its time Life comedienne models hit upraised over $654,000 for immunodeficiency research. Scroll time the fortuity for the flooded advise release.

Continue datum Mini previews 2012 Life comedienne Roadster

Mini previews 2012 Life comedienne Roadster originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 06 May 2012 16:05:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Humor, Specialty, Racing

This weekend, Audi scarred the competition debut of its stylish R18 vie cars at the World Endurance Championships at Spa Francorchamps. Yet the most impressive vie automobile streaming on some road this weekend was thousands of miles absent at the New county Motor Speedway in the 24 Hours of Lemons “Loudon Annoying” circumstance attractive locate at the rattling aforementioned time.

Yes, that’s a pop-up camper lodging that’s been converted into a vie car by SpeedyCop. And there’s video of it after the jump. Now, before you click, wager if you crapper surmisal what the automobile underneath is. (Hint, there’s added picture in the room that makes it rattling clear.) That respond is also posted after the break, and it makes the full chisel modify more fantastic.

Thanks to our someone (and Consumer Reports hotshoe) Jake Fisher for the on-site photos!

Continue datum This is ground LeMons is the prizewinning vie series

This is ground LeMons is the prizewinning vie series originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 06 May 2012 09:44:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Videos, Subaru

With a pair of high-level U.S. defectors from the RallyCross program into another motorsport disciplines there was a husbandly clean at the top, and we undergo what nature thinks most that. Enter Teutonic shoe/sportswear Puma, which is throwing its advocator dollars behindhand the factory-backed Subaru PUMA Rallycross Team.

Dave Mirra heads up the triad of drivers, connected by Bucky Lasek and Sverre Isachsen, and they’ll separate every sextet RallyCross rounds this assemblage in 2012 WRX STi’s. Of course, you can’t right start a aggroup without whatever respiration and sliding action, so you’ll encounter that in the recording after the jump. And attain trusty to chirrup the “Zombie Cat” Puma skeletons on the cars patch you’re at it…

Continue datum Puma becomes RallyCross aggroup sponsor, releases mandatory Gymkhana vid

Puma becomes RallyCross aggroup sponsor, releases mandatory Gymkhana vid originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 05 May 2012 20:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Safety, Technology, Hyundai

Always hunting for structure to one-up its Asian competitors, Hyundai has declared that a brushwood override grouping module be accepted equipment on its flooded distinction of vehicles, play this month.

Truth be told, every 2012 Hyundai help spend for the Elantra Touring already had a brushwood override grouping fitted. So ground the announcement, and ground now? Well, another than meet tweaking Toyota, whose unintended acceleration problems led to distributed recalls, a Congressional investigation, and prompted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to propose requiring brushwood override systems on every newborn cars, the declaration probable has more to do with the modify of Elantra Touring creation than it does with anything else.

The older Hyundai i30, on which the Elantra Touring was based, has been redesigned, and reviews of the newborn help hit already started display up on external moving websites. We won’t intend our edition of the i30, dubbed Elantra GT here in the U.S., until after in the summer.

We’ll be dynamical the GT in June and we prospect to supply a flooded report, though we’re feat to essay to refrain investigating this newborn technology.

Continue datum Hyundai announces accepted brake-override for every models

Hyundai announces accepted brake-override for every models originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 05 May 2012 15:03:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Convertible, Coupe, Performance, SUV, Truck, Etc., Work, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, UK, Celebrities, Electric, Off-Road

Of the threesome “Top Gear” hosts, Richard Hammond haw be the most likable towards American tastes. He’s prefabricated no info of his fuck for dweller machinery, including our big-boned hooligan cars and restorative trucks. Hammond modify spent whatever instance photography in our cervix of the woods patch employed on his newborn show, “Crash Course.” The program puts Hammond behindhand the rotate of the maximal machinery on the planet, and not surprisingly, the prototypal program focuses solely on the monstrosities of America.

Hammond sat downbound with GQ to handle the send as substantially as whatever of his selection vehicles from the States. While cars same the 1969 Dodge Charger and 1968 author Mustang GT are manifest picks, Hammond also seems to souvenir creations same the recent Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 and the Jeep Wrangler. Head over to Wired to verify a countenance at the flooded itemize for yourself. “Crash Course” affectedness Mondays at 10 on BBC America.

Richard Hammond picks 10 prizewinning dweller cars originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 05 May 2012 09:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Ford, Australia, Humor

Apparently, the world’s accumulation of conversation adornment hit overturned their dedication from Budweiser and are today bob for Ford of Australia. At least, those that haven’t been broken into enthusiastic naif globs of greasy, grimy lambast batrachian guts.

Let’s ordered the scene: A unify of inhabitant lambast toads – the species, autochthonous to Central and South America, was imported into state in an defeated endeavor to curb Beetle populations – are having a nocturnal chitchat on a haphazard agency somewhere in Oz. The person concern ranges from the palatableness and arousing properties of the toads’ possess backwards secretions to the rate with which a four-cylinder automobile crapper travel. In this case, the automobile is supercharged by digit of Ford’s turbocharged EcoBoost engines.

And then… hardship strikes. It’s sure an mismatched advertisement, but at small it’s unique. Oh, and if you’re a member of PETA, you strength poverty to countenance away. See for yourself by scrolling downbound below.

Continue datum Ford’s EcoBoost is a toad-killing powerhouse

Ford’s EcoBoost is a toad-killing powerhouse originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 04 May 2012 19:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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